Sunday, October 22, 2017

Solving Equations

At times in Maths (and life) you'll come across equations where you don't know some of the numbers involved for example in:

                                        2(4x - 2)  = 18

How to find x?  While some of you might be able to 'work it out in your head' that won't always work (trust me it gets harder!).  We need a process to help us untangle all the numbers from the x and leave us with a balanced equation of x =.......

Online Help:

Khan Academy Series: Start here and progress through the videos and activities as you need 

A different set of explanations: A webpage with examples

Solving Simple Equations: The Steps as a powerpoint 

IXL Solving Equations Practice: A few straight forward questions with answers


Pearson Text-Book Pages

Page 399 - 401 (Answers Page 665)
Page 407  (Answers Page 665) 

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